Adobe Premiere Pro speeds on an M1 reported officially

Eric Philpott at the Adobe Blog has a report on the latest Pfeiffer Benchmark Reports of Adobe Premiere Pro on Apple Silicon M1, and the results are pretty unbelievable.

From first launch to final exports, everything is faster — on average 77 percent faster than comparable Intel-based systems — and editing is buttery smooth.

Launch 50 percent faster, Open projects 77 percent faster, Save projects 168 percent faster, Gradient wipe effect 90 percent faster, Lens Flare effect 66 percent faster.

Wow, those are seriously impressive results, and would speed up the edit every day. I can’t wait to see what the M2 or even M3 will do, especially if they really goose the graphics cores and allow for more RAM. I am getting more and more excited for an M1 MacPro, even with limited expansion. I mean I have been pretty damn happy with my iMac Pro.

Jarle Leirpoll has a must read article on Premiere Pro’s Render Quality and Bit Depth at Frame.io

Jarle Leirpoll, the author of the book Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro and who runs the awesome site Premiere Pro.net, has written an absolute must read article at Frame.io on Premiere Pro’s Render and Bit Depth settings.

Honestly after all these years of using Premiere Pro I didn’t know exactly how all these settings work and when they are affecting things, and Jarle really goes into depth and he ran extensive tests on everything to prove it.

This really should be essential reading for any Premiere Pro user, and his open letter to Adobe is so true, and I just hope they listen. The whole thing should be simplified, which would quickly solve so many users issues with banding on exports.

So I moved my blog, and transferred it from blogger to WordPress

I don’t know if any people were reading my blog posts of late, but it can’t be many as the links were broken. I was using google’s blogger as the back end, and using a plug-in in Rapidweaver to show my blog, but the plug in like all of it’s predecessors is no more, and hasn’t been working right. It was added a comma in the rss feed to my blog, and I couldn’t fix it. And even weirder is that the links worked fine on my machine, so I couldn’t tell it was broken (thanks Tom).

I decided to move the blog to WordPress, and have been using a plug-in to show my movie reviews within the Rapidweaver site, but it just isn’t that good. So I moved the blog completely to jonahleewalker.com but will show the latest posts on my jonahlee.com front page.

A self hosted WordPress is just so much more powerful than blogger. It has extensive plug-in support, and with google’s feedburner also being gone, much getter RSS support. So overall the blog should be better. The RSS feed is here.

Sofi Marshall’s must read Ultimate Guide to Productions in Premiere Pro

 After my last post on Productions I also had to post this great guide from editor, writer and workflow expert Sofi Marshall, who I posted about her work from home streaming setup previously, THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO PRODUCTIONS: PREMIERE PRO’S MOST UNDERRATED NEW FEATURE.

This is a great read from someone who obviously has used this extensively and will really get you up and going with a feature that you should be using if you have a project of any size.

Just started using Productions in Premiere on a project that I was given to update an existing project, and I can’t believe just how good it

So I was just given a huge direct response, and the 300 MB project barely functioned, just beachballing when I tried to do anything. In fact I couldn’t even get it to copy and paste the contents into a new project, it just would beachball and nothing would happen. It was basically a disaster of a project and with a 28 minute and 30 second infomercial I really needed it to be sprightly since I am new jumping into it.

I considered just getting the sequence I was working on out, and did that, but it was a mess, and I would need to search through footage to cover different things, so I really the whole project.

So I tried Productions. You can read it about it here in the Adobe Premiere Pro Manual.

Basically I started a new Production and imported my existing project, which took a while to work, as the project was so messed up. I then broke the project up into smaller little projects as bins, and now a project that was taking 10+ minutes to open, opens in 15 seconds and works better than I could have ever expected!

This basically turns Premiere Pro into AVID, where each Bin is it’s own little project file. So if you are well organized you can break up a project and make little manageable pieces that you only need to open when you need to, to save memory. And you can use folders and break things up even more granularly, so multiple footage bins if you need it.

This is also for multi-user workflows as you can have some bins that open read only and others that you have read write, so you can find footage and not even own a bin, but it works just as well for a single user on a big project.

Honestly should be very scared of Productions, because it fixes one of the longstanding complaints about Premiere Pro where it is a single project that can get messed up. Instead it is a folder of projects all working together. WOW!

Honestly if you are doing a large project in Premiere I would consider using Productions because it speeds everything up and really just works.

This is easily the biggest improvement I have seen in years in Premiere Pro, and really pushes it to new professional heights.

Awesome.

OWC on which used Mac for Video Users

Brian Levin at Other World Computings Rocket Yard Blog has a great article on the pros and cons of various used Macs for video editors.

A great article and something to consider because of the lack of pro M1 computers with more than 16 GB of combined ram, and the possibility than sone plug ins or software might not yet work in an M1.

Jonny Elwyn on Affordable Color Grading Monitors

Affordable Colour Grading Monitors

Jonny Elwyn has a great and extensive article on Affordable Colour Grading Monitors, from computer Monitors to high end color correction screens. This is a seriously in depth article, and I wish something like this existed when I got my last monitor.

I just got a Samsung because it at least it has a blue only mode which certainly helps with color correction.

Video Editor Chris Salters with 2 levels if remote Collaboration Worklows for any budget

Trailer editor Chris Salters has posted 2 remote collaboration workflows, one free and one including a second computer. Great to see an almost free solution and a much more robust solution as well as solutions better than Zoom though much more expensive (starting at $399 a month). 

I like that he sets up a solution that will work with other programs as well.

The budget solution creates a new video monitor which means you are eating more of your precious video memory, which worries me a little, but for screening should be ok.

And the other solution requires another computer and some hardware, so might be more for where companies can provide hardware.

Animation program Cavalry has been updated to version 1.1

 

Cavalry the new 2D animation software has been updated to version 1.1. You can check out the announcement here. The most exciting is the text features which are already supposed to be better than any other program out there, but it’s versions 2.0 should be really impressive.

I have barely played with the subscription based Cavalry, but it does seem pretty easy to understand and use for someone who has used After Effects at least. You can try it for Free at limited resolution with watermarked output, but its $20 pounds or month or 16 Pounds if you do a yearly.

There are quite a few videos to get you started with the app. I really do need to delve into it, because it seems like they were trying to make a modern After Effects, and especially when the new font tool is out this should be well worth checking out.